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Martin, Michael O.; Mullis, Ina V. S.; Foy, Pierre; Stanco, Gabrielle M. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2012
For more than 50 years, the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) has been conducting comparative studies of educational achievement in a number of curriculum areas, including mathematics and science. TIMSS 2011 represents the fifth cycle of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS),…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Comparative Education, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis
Nelson, Jack L. – 1986
Academic freedom for precollegiate teachers in the United States is less clear than that expressed and confirmed in law and custom for college faculties. The question studied was how academic freedom is perceived in theory and practice by secondary school teachers outside of the United States. The interview schedule was modeled after schedules…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Educational Environment, Foreign Countries, Intellectual Freedom
Hill, Peter – 1977
The State School Teachers' Union of Western Australia has requested that primary teachers be free from teaching one-fifth time for other professional duties. Several arguments in favor of this proposal for more "noncontact time" have been advanced. The argument that primary teachers should have noncontact time equivalent to that of…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries, Labor Demands
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Lynch, Julianne; Sheard, Judithe; Carbone, Angela; Collins, Francesca – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2005
This paper focuses on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) academics' perceptions of factors that promote and inhibit their pursuit of scholarship in their teaching work. It identifies critical factors that influence academics' attitudes, orientations and behaviours in respect to the scholarship of teaching, and from these builds a…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Teacher Motivation, Foreign Countries, Teaching Conditions
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Cox, Eva; Goodman, James – Australian Universities' Review, 2005
Abused, ignored, sidelined, belittled. It's the human face of a systemic problem. Eva Cox and James Goodman report on a recent study of workplace bullying that highlights its effects on those being bullied, and the rather piecemeal administrative efforts to deal with it so far. (Contains 7 tables.)
Descriptors: Bullying, College Faculty, Antisocial Behavior, Peer Relationship
Crowther, Frank – 1991
This document reports on a project to identify and analyze the desire for professional collegiality and concerns about increasing alienation among members of the Queensland Institute for Educational Administration (QIEA). From a 3-phase workshop involving over 500 participants, 7 major issues were identified: (1) complexity of teaching and…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Burton, Judith – Journal of Australian Research in Early Childhood Education, 1997
Recent studies of teachers and teaching pay greater attention to relationships among teaching contexts, teachers' practical knowledge, and enacted curricula. As a contribution to this body of work, this study grappled with the problem of understanding the knowledge teachers use to create curricula within workplace demands. Survey, participant…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Context Effect, Curriculum Development, Early Childhood Education
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Yarrow, Allan; Millwater, Jan – Journal of Classroom Interaction, 1995
This study investigated whether classroom psychosocial environment, as perceived by student teachers, could be improved to their preferred level. Students completed the College and University Classroom Environment Inventory, discussed interventions, then completed it again. Significant deficiencies surfaced in the learning environment early in the…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, College Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Macdonald, Doune – Education in Rural Australia, 1994
Beginning health and physical education (HPE) teachers in rural and urban secondary schools in Australia shared concerns surrounding the status of HPE, HPE teachers' responsibilities, the routine nature of HPE teaching, sexual harassment, and public scrutiny of HPE teachers' lives. Suggests that teacher education programs address the problematic…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Physical Education
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Punch, Keith F.; Tuettemann, Elizabeth – British Educational Research Journal, 1990
Shows the level of psychological distress among 574 Western Australian secondary teachers to be twice that expected in the general population. Lists eight school-related factors found to be statistically related to stress. Differences between male and female teachers suggests responses are sex related. (NL)
Descriptors: Correlation, Foreign Countries, Psychological Studies, Secondary Education
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King, Sheila; Kronk, Heidi; Henderson, Mary – Education in Rural Australia, 1998
The Isolated Schools' Project offers final-year preservice teachers the opportunity to experience teaching in a nonevaluated situation in a rural or remote part of Queensland (Australia). Two student teachers describe their three-week experiences in isolated one-room schools. (SV)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Geographic Isolation, One Teacher Schools
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O'Donoghue, Thomas A. – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2000
Australian education has experienced three reform cycles: the 1970s federal intervention weakening states' centralized dominance; mid-1980s state-government "corporate managerial" reforms; and the 1990s "Tripartite Alliance" (of government, business, and unions). Current issues include national curriculum, ministerial controls,…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Economic Factors, Educational Change, Educational History
Churchill, Rick; Williamson, John – 1997
This paper presents the Australian perspective on a study conducted by the Consortium for Cross-Cultural Research in Education. Only 23 percent of the Australian teachers in the sample perceived the main objective of significant change as relating directly to their own work context. While most respondents saw themselves as "adapters" (63…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Dinham, Steve; Scott, Catherine – 1996
This paper describes the first phase of a study of teachers and school administrators in Western Sydney, Australia. A survey to measure teacher satisfaction, motivation, and health was designed based on findings from earlier research. Participants were 529 teachers and school administrators at 47 primary, secondary, and special purpose schools.…
Descriptors: Administrators, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Public School Teachers
Jones, Tamara – 2001
This paper explores the perceptions of three rural secondary school teachers in the Riverina area of New South Wales, Australia. In-depth interviews were conducted with three secondary teachers: three male teachers aged 25, 32, and 60. The original objective of the grounded theory study was to examine the teachers' perceptions about the state's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Satisfaction, Mass Media Role, Professional Recognition
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